The College of Engineering takes an active role in preventing the transmission and reception of Unsolicited Bulk Email (UBE) and Unsolicited Commercial Email (UCE), more commonly known as "spam."

INFORMATION ABOUT SPAM
For information about UBE and UCE, what it is, why it is bad, and what generally can be done about it, please see http://spam.abuse.net and http://www.cauce.org/.

NOTIFICATION
The College of Engineering mail server presents all mail connections with the following notice during the SMTP mail transport transaction:

220- This equipment is located in California. In accordance with 17538.45
220- of the California Business and Professional Code, unsolicited
220- electronic mail advertisements are prohibited. See
220- http://www.engr.ucsb.edu/eci/UEMA_policy.html for details.

This serves to give legal notification to sites that we prohibit such mail transactions.

HOW WE PRE-SCREEN AND REJECT MESSAGES
Incoming messages to the College of Engineering email server are rejected if they meet some or all of the following conditions:

1. If the originating site is listed with http://mail-abuse.com/

2. If the "Subject" header or message body match certain known keywords commonly used in spam (e.g. "Make money fast!").

3. If the originating site is listed in our local list of sites from whom we have received UBE and UCE.

4. Various other heuristic scoring techniques to identify mail with falsified sender headers, known spam keywords and phrases in the body of the message, known spam generating "From" lines, etc.

WHAT TO DO IF YOU RECEIVE SPAM
The spam rejection techniques cannot catch all UBE and UCE. You may still receive spam. If you receive spam and would like to do something about it, please forward the message including the FULL MESSAGE HEADERS to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . If you do not include the full message headers, then we will not be able to do anything useful to block the originating site.

WHAT TO DO IF LEGITIMATE MESSAGES TO YOU ARE REJECTED BY OUR MAIL SERVER
The spam rejection techniques may occasionally reject messages that are legitimate email. If this happens, please let This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it know the details and we will ensure you are able to receive the messages.